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Pâte brisée simple

Original in French

Véronique · cuisineaz.com · 2007 · 4

Against 179 pie crust recipes

Less water than 95% of recipes and more sugar than 97%.

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How it compares

Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • Less water than 95% of recipes: 12% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 30%, about half as much.
  • More sugar than 97% of recipes: 16% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 12.5 times as much.
  • Fat in the middle half of recipes: 50% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 65%.
Fat: 50%, 20th percentileWater: 12%, 4th percentileSalt: 1.6%, 56th percentileSugar: 16%, 98th percentileFatWaterSaltSugar
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (5)

  • 250 g Farine250 g
  • 40 g Sucre fin40 g
  • 3 cl Lait≈ 31 g
  • 125 g Beurre125 g
  • 4 g Sel4 g

flour 250 gbatter 450 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Baker's percentages

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 179 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

  • Fat50% · 20th percentile
  • Water12% · 4th percentile
  • Salt1.6% · 56th percentile
  • Sugar16% · 98th percentile

Oven

Temperature
not stated
median 390°F
Time
not stated
median 20 minutes

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